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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Mayra de Freitas Preto in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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In the last decades, a striking agribusiness expansion and intensification in Brazilian Amazon agricultural frontier is promoting a fast shift in land use and cover, associated with high deforestation rates and environmental impacts. The Alto Xingu River Basin is located in Mato Grosso, the Brazilian state with one of the highest rates of agricultural and livestock production, as well as …
Chitosan is a biopolymer obtained from chitin, a polysaccharide found in several organisms, including the endoskeleton of cephalopods. Among the cephalopods, individuals of Loliginidae family have a well-known economic importance and its collection and processing produces waste, such as its gladius, material rich in protein and beta-chitin. The amino groups present in chitosan confer bind…
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